to-do list that includes gun control and immigration reform. and there s question if he ll get it with more than a dozen democrats up for reelection in the mid term. mike, how much arm twisting is this going to take. reporter: good question, alisyn. democratic unity is likely to be tested early and often as members are apt to take tough votes and president obama traveled up to annapolis maryland to layout his second term agenda and partially a pep talk as well. and expected to include gun control, immigration, climate change, taxes and spending and more, white house aides note from reducing gun violence and other issues and removing his agenda forward, as for tough votes, here is press secretary jay carney. he thinks that the american
conversation with carl rove of 2004 when he realized in 2004, carl rove nuf that he needed the hispanic vote. and he recognized he didn t need every single catholic and he didn t need every single person of color. he just needed a percentage off the top in order to move the republican agenda forward. since then, the republican party has gone off the deep enld. and they re also losing, as a result of caterering to the tea party so quickly. they re also actually losing a lot of moderate republicans. not only is the country more diverse, its s younger and it has a lot of single women and it has asians running and african americans and latinos. it s a whole demographic change. how do we see ourselves moving forward as a country? and, again, what rove understands but i think he s having a hard time letting go of the possibility of where the
the wild-eyed socialist class hiking tax warrior was ronald reagan. he thought in american the wealthiest should pay their fair share. eric: whatever. i ll let rush tell it. they have revisionist history about the reagan years. all of it, what they need to move their agenda forward, when they need to marshall support for what they are trying to do, who do they invoke? lbj? no. teddy kennedy? no. j.f.k.? no. r.f.k.? no. bill clinton? no. they invoke ronald reagan. eric: revisionist history. exactly right, bob. reagan and obama are miles apart. the divide cannot be wide enough in the world. bob: that is in your view, and your view is a wide
bill: so president obama invoking the name of ronald reagan while trying to pitch his so-called buffett rule. that rule would set a minimum tax rate of 30% for people who earn at least a million dollars a year on investment income. and mr. obama says reagan would have supported that. i m not the first president to call for this idea that everybody has got to do their fair share. if it will help convince folks in congress to make the right choice, we could call it the reagan rule instead of the buffett rule. bill: conservatives jumped all over that. take serious issue with that comment. here is radio show host rush limbaugh shortly after. they engage in revisionist history about the reagan years. but all of it when they need to move their agenda forward, when they need to marshal support what they try to do. who do they invoke? j lbj, no.
the gipper? the wild-eyed socialist class hiking tax warrior was ronald reagan. he thought in american the wealthiest should pay their fair share. eric: whatever. i ll let rush tell it. they have revisionist history about the reagan years. all of it, what they need to move their agenda forward, when they need to marshall support for what they are trying to do, who do they invoke? lbj? no. teddy kennedy? no. j.f.k.? no. r.f.k.? no. bill clinton? no. they invoke ronald reagan. eric: revisionist history. exactly right, bob. reagan and obama are miles apart. the divide cannot be wide enough in the world. bob: that is in your